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On 01/27/2016 12:32 PM, Simon Wright wrote:
> 
> The tool of choice here (on Unix systems) is 'od'; 'od -c test' shows
> and interprets the file contents byte-by-byte.

hd test | less

is also useful. Note that piping into less is also a good idea with od.

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